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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

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Favoriting July 13, 2024: Phillip Johnston A saxophonist, composer and arranger of both jazz and new music, Phillip has been a significant figure in the underground music scene of New York’s downtown since the beginning of the 1980s.
https://phillipjohnston.com

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Public Servants  Jungle Hotel   Favoriting bw A Mistake       
The Microscopic Septet  Second Avenue   Favoriting Seven Men in Neckties: History of the Micros, Volume 1 by The Microscopic Septet  Cuneiform  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/second-avenue  0:16:29 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet  Let's Flip   Favoriting Let's Flip  Osmosis Records  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/lets-flip  0:22:39 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet  The Dream Detective   Favoriting Seven Men in Neckties: History of the Micros, Volume 1 by The Microscopic Septet  Cuneiform Records  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-dream-detective  0:41:10 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet  Brilliant Corners   Favoriting Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros, Volume 2 by The Microscopic Septet  Cuneiform Records  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/friday-the-13th-the-micros-play-monk-2  0:54:04 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet  Cat Toys   Favoriting Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues  Cuneiform Records  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/been-up-so-long-it-looks-like-down-to-me-the-micros-play-the-blues-hd-44k-24b  1:01:36 (Pop-up)
The Greasy Chicken Orchestra  Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning   Favoriting I Cake-Walked With a Zombie  Earshift Music    1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble  The Invisible World   Favoriting Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble  Black Saint    1:22:46 (Pop-up)
The Transparent Quartet  Pipeline   Favoriting   Koch Jazz    1:26:13 (Pop-up)
Fast and Bulbous  Suction Prints   Favoriting Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind  Cuneiform Records  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pork-chop-blue-around-the-rind  1:38:15 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet  Let's Flip   Favoriting in Neckties: History of the Micros, Volume 1 by The Microscopic Septet  Cuneiform  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/second-avenue  1:42:23 (Pop-up)
Phillip Johnston and the Coolerators  Frankly   Favoriting Diggin' Bones      2:01:11 (Pop-up)
Phillip Johnston and the Coolerartors  The Revenant   Favoriting Diggin' Bones      2:06:43 (Pop-up)
The Greasy Chicken Orchestra  Everyone Deserves Everything All the Time   Favoriting Cake-Walked With a Zombie  Earshift Music    2:15:50 (Pop-up)
Saxophone Special  Snake Race   Favoriting unreleased      2:30:15 (Pop-up)
Saxophone Special  Hemline   Favoriting unreleased      2:32:23 (Pop-up)
Nora York and Combo Cocktail  Somebody Else   Favoriting       2:40:41 (Pop-up)
Phillip Johnston  Babyland   Favoriting       2:45:09 (Pop-up)
Phillip Johnston  Take O Take   Favoriting       2:48:15 (Pop-up)
Guy Klecevsek's Aint Nothing But a Polka Band  Pontius Pilate Polka   Favoriting Who Stole the Polka      2:50:39 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 2:00pm
neveract:

Good afternoon Dave
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ neveract @2:00
welcome neveract...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Dave, Phillip!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ doctorjazz @2:12
hey doc.....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:13pm
doctorjazz:

Was at the Micros show last night, GREAT SETS (made most of the 1st set, all of the 2nd)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:13pm
doctorjazz:

Curious about the instrument-Phillip didn't play the straight sax last night...
Avatar 2:15pm
neveract:

Brian Landrus just released an Ellington/Strayhorn album..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
doctorjazz:

↳ neveract @2:15
Hi neveract!
Avatar 2:16pm
neveract:

↳ doctorjazz @2:15
Hey doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:22pm
doctorjazz:

An old Micros Groupie here (not that you'd want me...).
Caught many of the shows back in the day, and most of the reunions!
  2:36pm
Dean:

You two are disproving Fear's claim that New York's alright if you like saxophone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @2:36
mmmmm Dean
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:50pm
WR:

Hello Dave and honored guest Phillip Johnston.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @2:50
hey WR....
  3:00pm
Dean:

That was fabulous.
  3:02pm
Dean:

Per wikipedia, "The title appears to come from a line in the 1928 blues song 'I Will Turn Your Money Green', by Furry Lewis, which was included on records issued in 1953, 1959 and 1961."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
doctorjazz:

Reverand Gary Davis, I believe (Keep your lamp...)
  3:10pm
Dean:

Gonna have to spin First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, the Hot Tuna album on which that tune appears.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
doctorjazz:

Saw Jorma Kaukonen play Lamp" recently, was still great (Steven Bernstein sat in)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
doctorjazz:

Blind Willie Johnson did it earlier...
  3:15pm
Phillip Johnston:

From my score: Trad.
Recorded by Blind Willie Johnson 1928,
Reverend Gary davis, 1956, Mississippi Fred McDowell 1959.
Arr. Phillip Johnston
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" by "The Grea...
Thurs is great, have to grab this CD!
  3:21pm
Dean:

Good lord, Fahey does "Keep Your Lamps" with his "orchestra."
  3:22pm
Dean:

And, lo, Hot Tuna first covered it on their debut album, which was recorded about three blocks from where I sit.
  3:23pm
Dean:

Rather, it appears as a bonus track on a reissue of the first Hot Tuna album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
doctorjazz:

Show is getting me through the usual NJ Transit screw ups...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ doctorjazz @3:24
glad to help doc....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
doctorjazz:

Any other Phillip Johnston Gigs in the NY area?
  3:43pm
Phillip Johnston:

Not this time around I'm afraid..
  3:43pm
Phillip Johnston:

Thanks for asking, though.
  3:44pm
Phillip Johnston:

Hey nobody told me there'd be math!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
WR:

Ska is a me bop?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @3:45
could be WR...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
ironybread:

Have been desperately in love with the Micros since 1991, when they performed in Sun Valley, Idaho, and did "Happy Birthday to You" to an audience member in 6 keys at once.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
ironybread:

The Micros version of "Johnny Come Lately" is one of the hardest-driving sonofagun tracks them boys ever did, and should be on the soundtrack of a heist film.
  3:55pm
Dean:

Is the name he's looking for Maurizio Comandini or something similar?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
WR:

still all ears out hears.
  3:56pm
Dean:

Comandino?
  4:00pm
Dean:

According to the liner notes to Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind, he "started it all."
  4:02pm
Phillip Johnston:

Yes! Thank you, Maurizio! How did you dig that up?
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ ironybread @3:50
Utah, Idaho
  4:03pm
Phillip Johnston:

Comandini is right.
  4:03pm
Dean:

Discogs, found the image of the liner notes to the first Fast 'n' Bulbous album, enlarged it using Preview.
  4:03pm
wimpy:

That beefheart cover was pretty rad, I’ll definitely be checking out the album
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
ironybread:

↳ Dave Sewelson @4:02
Corner of Lobster & Lobster
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Dave Sewelson:

↳ wimpy @4:03
dig it wimpy....
  4:13pm
Dean:

Dave Sewelson, Dave Sewelson...rings a bell.
  4:14pm
Dean:

A marvelous coincidence, the reference to Jelly Roll Morton, whom Bob Brainen plays weekly on the show preceding Dave's!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
ironybread:

I'll just shout at the sky "Boy I wish the Micros would come back to L.A." and leave it at that, I know this business is a heartbreak ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
Gina Bacon:

Hi Dave, Phillip and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Gina Bacon @4:22
GINAGINAGINAGINA
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
ironybread:

How Can You Be In Two Armies At Once When You're Not A Firesign Theatre Reference At All
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
ironybread:

I recommend that everyone visit phillipjohnston.com where you can find our Mr. Johnston's email address, and insist that he add you to his newsletter mailing list. I bet he'll do it.
  4:30pm
Erik abides VT:

↳ Song: "Everyone Deserves Everything All the Time" by "Th...
Wowee Zowee that’s the shizz-nits!
favorite vibes…👏👏👏 thank uze.
-¿did Phillip say that was a Jelly Roll theme?, Or someone other?
Jimmie Lunceford tip yer cap 😜
  4:34pm
Phillip Johnston:

Everyone Deserves Everything is one of my tunes. As is Snake Race. Hemline is Lacy, but which I've arranged the hell out of... the original is solo soprano, with a little vibraphone..
  4:38pm
DH:

Did we play hemline in the Swiging Phoenecians?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Hemline" by "Saxophone Special"
thank you for sharing that.
  4:42pm
Phillip Johnston:

DH, I think this post-swinging phoenecians (sp? doesn't look right)....
  4:43pm
Walter:

Hello from Oakland, Ca.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Walter @4:43
Walter...hello to the left coast...
  4:52pm
DH:

john King
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
doctorjazz:

Loved the show, thanks Phillip and Dave!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Pontius Pilate Polka" by "Guy Klecevsek's Aint No...
that was David Garland on vocal? Cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
ironybread:

You guise are the best! Cheers!
  4:58pm
Dean:

Likewise, I learned so much about an artist whose work I've admired for a long time, but about whom I didn't know a lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
Gina Bacon:

Thanks, Dave and Phillip! I'll be ready, Dave!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
WR:

Thank you! Thank you! Wonderful Wonderful!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
WR:

Phillip, you can do drummer stream shows from Australia!
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